“I’m not waiting anymore,” Christopher Porterfield sings with stern conviction on his band Field Report’s song of the same name, with zero doubt that these words hold the truth. Those words have been lurking in the minds of Porterfield and his bandmates for some time. For Porterfield, his journey has gone from doubting his path [...]

SXSW has come and gone, and for Adam Duritz, frontman for alt-rock icons Counting Crows, this year’s fest was a pleasant blur of music, friends, and questionable meat products. The Crows, who will release their new all-covers album Underwater Sunshine on April 10, headed to Austin to headline a free show and record a live [...]

On April 10, 2012, Counting Crows will release their first independent album: a collection of covers entitled Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation). Underwater Sunshine includes their versions of new and old songs, from legendary artists like Bob Dylan and Gram Parsons to relatively new bands like Romany Rye and Dawes. [...]

Counting Crows August & Everything After – Live at Town Hall (Eagle Rock) Rating: It’s been ten years since Counting Crows spat out Hard Candy, and they’re still doing damage control for “Big Yellow Taxi,” a song that still gets rotation in every supermarket and dentist’s office in the nation. Insult to injury: The band [...]

I was wasted in the afternoonWaiting on a trainI woke up in pieces and Elisabeth had disappeared againI wish you were inside of meI hope that you’re okI hope you’re resting quietlyI just wanted to sayGoodnight ElisabethGoodnight ElisabethWe couldn’t all be cowboysSo some of us are clownsSome of us are dancers on the midwayWe roam [...]

On Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings, he’s still trying to convince himself that being famous is all it’s cracked up to be…